Hardware Podcasts

Ep020: Slaying the Dragon of EL, Siege Weapon Physics, Dis-entangled Charlieplex, Laser Internet

Hackaday Podcast · 24 May 2019 · 1h 06m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys discuss a range of hardware hacks, including Ben Krasnov's difficult recreation of the Apollo DSKY electroluminescent display, Drew Dunn and colleagues' FPGA-based poker hand evaluator, and Tom Stanton's physics experiments with a trebuchet. They also cover the 'Uncovering the Silicon' booth at Maker Fair Bay Area, which used 3D models to explain transistor physics, and reflect on the history of the Zork text adventure game. The episode concludes with interviews from attendees of the first Maker Fair in 2006 about the event's impact on the maker community.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Cornell, SpaceX
Products
DSKY, Apollo, Starlink, Zork, TRS 80, Apple 2
Tools
Fermata
Also
Ben Krasnov, Drew Dunn, Jacob Gleck, Michael Solo Mentstev, Bruce Land, M Rule, Charlieplexing, Tom Stanton, John McMaster, Ken Shirriff, Eric Schlepfer, Wendell and Lenore, Nicholas Roy, Maker Fair Bay Area

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